Plan ahead!

Last week I got a good deal on a couple of Woods implements...used of course. When I bought my trailer, I was figuring on tractor, FEL & possibley BH so naturally, an 18 foot trailer would do just fine for my needs.

The Woods implements that I purchased...a 7 ft rake and a 6 ft brush-hog are great...until you do the math. The brush-hog, tractor, FEL are way longer than 18 ft....so I will have to remove the FEL in order to transport the tractor/brushog. It's not the end of the world, but I wish I'd have gotten the 20 ft trailer instead of the 18 ft. I guess what I'm saying is don't shoot yourself in the foot as I did...get the next bigger size trailer & avoid the problems.

Re: Plan ahead!

I'm probably making a mountain out of a mole hill.....it's just that I was anticipating driving on & off with whatever attachment I had on the 3pt. The loader is a 300cx so it's only a few moments to take it off if I need to haul the mower. My big concern was needing the fel to help push me out of a bad spot if the need arose. What might happen is that I haul the mower & rake to the site & just leave them there for when I need them.

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HZ: With the fel curled to the dump position and at the very front of the trailer, I've got a whole lot of tongue weight to start with. I'm afraid of crunching the tailgate against the bucket in a tight turn. if I put it on the a-frame. I've already had to have a new gate which was close to a grand. I might better have gone to a junk yard & kept the insurance money to buy more implements.

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Just let the wheel of the brush cutter sit over the back by a foot or so.
Works fine.
I have a 20' trailer and a MF1433 with a 5' cutter with FEL and it fits with 2 or 3 feet up front of space.
I'm not seeing why this doesn't work for you.

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I neglected to mention that I've got the "I-Match" hanging off the rear of my 3520....and the length of the brush hog is near 8 foot to the end of the tail wheel. Now that being said, I've done preliminary measurements and it seems like a very tight fit on my 18 foot trailer. I do like the idea of the bucket support up high so that might be the answer for not having to take the FEL off during transport. I'm working on getting a set of bushings for the I-Match so I can get the hog connected & go from there. Thanks all for the great ideas.